s -- Wadsworth -- Capitulation of Harper's Ferry --
Five days' fighting -- Brave Hooker wounded -- No results -- No
reports from McClellan -- Tactics of the Maryland campaign --
Nobody hurt in the staff -- Charmed lives -- Wadsworth, Judge
Conway, Wade, Boutwell, Andrew -- This most intelligent people
become the laughing-stock of the world! -- The proclamation of
emancipation -- Seward to the Paisley Association -- Future
complications -- If Hooker had not been wounded! -- The military
situation -- Sigel persecuted by West Point -- Three cheers for
the carriage and six! -- How the great captain was to catch the
rebel army -- Interview with the Chicago deputation -- Winter
quarters -- The conspiracy against Sigel -- Numbers of the rebel
army -- Letters of marque.

The intrigues, the insubordination of McClellan's pets, have almost
exclusively brought about the disasters at Manassas and at Bull Run,
and brought the country to the verge of the grave. But the people are
not to know the truth.

CONSUMMATUM EST! The people's honor is stained--the country's cause on
the verge of the grave. Will this outraged people avenge itself on the
four or five diggers?

Old as I am, I feel a more rending pain now than I felt thirty years
ago when Poland was entombed. Here are at stake the highest interests
of humanity, of progress, of civilization. I find no words to utter my
feelings; my mind staggers. It is filled with darkness, pain, and
blood.

Mr. Lincoln is the standard-bearer of the policy of the New York
Herald. So, before him, were Pierce and Buchanan.

It is said that General McClellan fully satisfied the President of his
(the General's) complete innocence as to the delays which exclusively
generated the last disasters; also Gen. McClellan has justified
himself on military grounds. I wish the verdict of innocence may be
uttered by a court-martial of European generals. At any rate, the
country was thrown into an abyss.

_After a year!_--One hundred thousand of the best, bravest, the most
devoted men slaughtered; hundreds and hundreds of millions squandered;
the army again in the entrenchments of Washington; everywhere the
defensive and losses; the enemy on the Potomac, perhaps to invade the
free States; but McClellan is in command, his headquarters as
brilliant and as numerous as a year ago; the mean flunkeys at their
post; only the country's life-blood pours i